US860810A - Diffusion apparatus. - Google Patents

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No. 860,810. PATENTED JULY 23. 1907.

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DIFFUSION APPARATUS APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26, 1907.

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FRIEDRICH VON KLAUDY AND FRANZ JUNGER, OF REGENSBURG, GERMANY.

DIFFUSION APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 23, 1907.

Application filed February 26, 1907- Serial No. 359,415.

To all whom iL may concern:

Be it known that we, FRIEDRICH BITTER VON KLAUDY, manager, and FRANZ JUNGER chief engineer, subjects of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Rcgensburg, Germany, and at Weinburge, Bohemia, Austria-I-Inngary, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Diffusion Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

Diffusion apparatus, for the extraction of sugar from sliced beet-root and other materials, furnished with a lateral exit near the bottom of the shell have hitherto been discharged by the exhausted slices being cleared out by hand labor.

Our invention relates to an improvement in diffusers, by means of which the discharge is effected mechanically that is, without the employment of manual labor, whereby a difficult and at the same time unhealthy operation is obviated and the discharging process rendered more rapid.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure I shows in vertical section a diffuser fitted with the new apparatus, Fig. 2 being a horizontal section of Figv 1. v

In the diffuser, a rotary sieve or perforated false bottom a is located. This false bottom is carried by the driving shaft c and is supported on balls or rollers b or the like, which run on the real bottom of the diffuser. Above the false bottom a is a fixed radial clearer is, secured to the shell of the diffuser, adjacent to the discharge aperture f.

The operation of discharging is as follows:After completion of the extraction process, the lateral discharge aperture f, located at the level of the false bottom a, is opened and pressure water let in at the opposite aperture 6. This water flows through the outlet f and washes away the slices of beet lying on the false bottom a between the inlet 6 and outletf. If the false bottom a is now set in rotation, all parts of it move in succession into the line ef and in this manner the entire contents of the diffuser are discharged. The clearer 7; stops the slices of beet brought before the outlet f by the rotating false bottom c.

Having thus described our invention we claim as new:

and an bottom a diffuser, in combination, a shell having; an inlet outlet near the bottom, a rotary perforated l'alsc located at the level of the said outlet, and means located at the latter, for stopping the exhausted material carried round by the revolving false bottom and aiding in its discharge, substantially as described.

2. In diffusor, in combination, a shell having an inlet and an outlet near the bottom, a rotary perforated false bottom located at the level of the said apertures, a vertical driving shaft carrying the false bottom, and a radial clearer secured to the shell at the outlet, for the purpose of stopping the exhausted material on the false bottom and aiding in its discharge, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we athxed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

FRIEDRICH VON KLAUDY. FRANZ JUNGER.

Witnesses ADOLPH Frscrmn, ZUTENKO Smut K.

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